SecretIdent123

Ok, I think I managed to solve the lagginess problem on my GMA 950 based laptop. I did the following: 1) Updated the drivers to the latest version available on the Intel website. That by itself didn't fix the problem, so see next step. 2) In Graphics Properties, 3D Settings menu, I set "Force S3TC Texture compression" to On, and "Force FXT1 Texture compression" to Off. That completely got rid of lagginess at the cost of minor reduction in graphics quality. EDIT: setting both of these to On really degraded the graphics and made the text look all washed out.

Originally Posted By: Spidweb The game was tested on dozens of systems, and the only time speed issues showed up was on Intel GMA graphics processors. - Jeff Vogel My Aspire 3690 has Intel GMA 950 GPU I believe the drivers are up to date, since I have the same version installed as the one available on Acer's website. Also, the system is a few years old and it's unlikely that they update the drivers every month. Any idea whether the game will ever work with GMA graphics cards?

Originally Posted By: Toby-Linn Also check if you have the latest version of DirectX. I think it was mentioned somewhere that the game is based on OpenGL. I may be mistaken.

Same here. Horrible, abysmal performance on Acer Aspire 3690 laptop with 1.6 GHz Celeron processor and 1.5 GB of memory, onboard video card. I'm running Windows XP SP2. The mouse pointer barely moves in the menu screens, and mouse clicks don't register over the buttons. In the game screen, the gameplay is jerky even on the lowest resolution and with the background effects turned off. Also, I use extended desktop, because I much prefer my external LCD monitor to the laptop monitor. When on single desktop, the gameplay performance is a little better (though still not acceptable, with low resolutions), but menu screens performance is still way off.